Oh I laughed so much when I read this. (Today has been a good day for laughing.) Friends and family, I have seen the looks on your faces when I describe some things in China and I can tell you remain in disbelief. I just want to say, “See! It really is like that!”

Also, just after we arrived here we were driving at night and coming off the toll road. Suddenly a whole bunch of cars were pulled off to the side of the road near a small ravine. It was dark, I got no sense of urgency, and I thought, “What are they doing? Night fishing?? Later it dawned on me, umm, no. Not night fishing. ROFL!!!

On my trip back to sanity (USA) I learned quite a few things, not the least of which is that most of the people of my beloved country are so ill-prepared and ill-informed- (just as I was, until living here) of what China is like, and much of what I am stating on this blog may appear to be so fantastic as to be fake or a figment of my imagination. As an example, when I asked people back home about what they know of China, it was zilch, basically a … Read More

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